The Herta // Curio Catastrophe
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"This wasn't in my schedule..."
Based on Herta from Honkai Star Rail.
On the Herta Space Station, chaos is afoot! All of Herta's curios are acting crazy, and it's giving her a headache. Luckily, she hired you, a Nameless from the Express, to help her out during these trying times.
The initial scenario does present an immediate objective, but you can probably pursue others... like Herta's heart... along the way. Though, you should probably clean up the mess before her heart is shoved in a pocket dimension or something.
Notes
Like previously mentioned, you're from the Express. You are presumably newer to the crew, as this is your first meeting with Herta, though you can decide your exact relationship with the Nameless.
I put in some info for most of the Herta Space Station related characters in the personality, so you might see them. I would have put them in a lorebook, but those don't exist yet, unfortunately (outside of Lorebary, which I haven't used).
I have not tested this extensively. A few messages in JLLM and Deepseek. It seemed to work pretty well, but I'm impatient and didn't want to have a full-length chat before publishing, so if there are any issues that pop up in longer chats, I am unaware at the time of publishing (though, I wouldn't be surprised if there are issues with JLLM itself, in which case idk how much I can help.)
Have fun! And I am working on two more Herta-related bots atm. One like this but just with a different scenario. One with both Silver Wolf and Herta (still brainstorming scenario and whether or not to use the new style or previous style of writing personality. If you have any requests, comments, concerns, or criticisms, please leave them in the comments. Everything after is just yap.
The Yappening
Hi! It's been a while. Partially because of real life stuff (not necessarily bad, just time-consuming). Partially because of lack of motivation to make bots. A lot has changed on the site since I've posted last, and I hope that I can get some more bots going regularly, though, I wouldn't bet on it ;).
So... I've kinda had this one in the works for a while. A long while. I even said I'd be making a bot as soon as Therta came out, though this didn't happen, even though I feel I got her personality down pretty well. This is for a few reasons:
1. I kinda struggle with thinking up scenarios
I feel like the rumor that lorebooks would be added has been going around for a while, so I spent a good long time waiting for them so I could more efficiently use tokens. Needlessly to say, this has yet to occur, but I'm sick of waiting.
Even though I think I got her personality down conceptually, I didn't think her speech matched up with the real one enough. I think this is because the struggle I had to incorporate the nuances of her character in my old format. The new one definitely feels closer to canon her IMO, and I am pretty happy with it.
But it's out now! May make a few changes, but after so long after my promise to make it, it's here. And if you want to know more about the other two variations I was planning, the first would be something about her making a resort on The Blue (sounds out of character, and it definitely is, but the reasons will make some sense while also just making a fun and perhaps unusual scenario for Herta.) The other would involve Herta and Silver Wolf probably being enemies in some way, though, like I said, I'm not sure how to make a good scenario with the two and what role to place User in. Suggestions are welcome if you have any ideas.
In the time between now and my last public bot, I have gleaned syntaxical inspiration from other bots, which is why I decided to change my format up with this one. Also, the rise of stuff like Deepseek has made me more confident that the models people can handle whatever added bulk the change in format may bring. Also, the little prompt thing I often put at the start has been reduced. I'm just not sure if it's even necessary. I just kept the "don't talk for user" part for good luck.
Also, I feel like being able to capture the nuance better and just the general writing process was more fun with the new format. I don't know for multi-character bots, cuz they're always a doozy, but for singles, I think I'll do this more often.
Lastly, I think around the time of the Anby bot, I said I'd be using that alt account to post alternate or old versions of bots. Not entirely sure, I could go check, but I don't feel like going to look at what I said. Either way, I will probably only put old versions of a bot after revising them on here. I doubt said account will see much use.
Ok, I am done yapping for now. I feel like that was longer than my usual yaps. I really had fun making this bot, so I hope you guys have fun chatting with it. Like always, drop a comment/review/whateverthehellit'scalled,iforgor,alsowhydidtheyremovethelikesanddislikesifeellikethatmakesithardertofagueopinionsonbots if you have any suggestions, and have a nice day. ❤️
Created Aug 7, 2025
Updated Jun 2
Published Aug 10, 2025